I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta. Before that I mainly worked in C and C++. I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years. I also mess around with microprocessors, but that's just for fun. I live near Cambridge, England and work from home in my 'silicon shed'.

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For the past couple of weeks I've been bringing my Raspberry Pi to work with me each day in my bag. But my desktop PC only has one network socket which is already in use, so I've only been able to connect the Raspberry Pi to my laptop. To make things easier, I bought a USB Ethernet adaptor, so that I can use my Raspberry Pi in the office with ease, in fact I can use it on any PC with a free USB socket. Here it is in action:

That works OK, which is cool. You can see I'm still running the Pi from the battery - which is still on it's original charge. It's given me light use of the Raspberry Pi for over two weeks. But at some point a Raspberry Pi powered laptop will appear I expect...

For my part, I'd be happy if somebody made an integrated Raspberry Pi case-and-battery. Then you could just carry one box around and recharge it like a phone or a kindle. But there may not be a market for crazy people like me who carry their RasPi around with them.

I'm writing this blog entry using my new Raspberry Pi, it's the second one I've bought. Not much unusual about that, but I'm doing it in Costa Coffee in Cambridge:

It's good that you can get your hands on a Raspberry Pi much easier now. I ordered this one on Friday night, and it arrived Tuesday morning. So that's less than 2 working days, which is much better. I got this one from Cool Components and I got the red ModMyPi case from the same place too.
So because I had a Raspberry Pi in a case, I decided to go out on the road with it, well why not?

To get power to the Pi I'm using an emergency phone charger, mine is a TeckNet iEP380 which I bought from Amazon. It's rated at 5000mAh and seems to power the Raspberry Pi very well (although I've got nothing connected to the USB ports of the Pi). It might struggle if I connected any devices but I'm using the Pi 'headless' with just an ethernet cable to connect to my laptop.

So... now I can sit here in Costa Coffee, sipping my Cortado whilst working on my Raspberry Pi. Excellent, it's a good way to spend an hour or so in the morning.